Enhanced Podcasts on Apple TV

Does Apple TV support Enhanced Podcast content? (I.e, audio podcasts that have photo/graphics content embedded when viewed on iphone/ipod touch). I can listen to the audio on Apple TV but it doesn't diplay the embedded photos on the TV.

After checking out the history of photography, I see it uses a double text track with photo-jpeg track for the photos, this is a similar format for chapter markers on itunes movies, chapter markers are accessed via the up button on the remote, so the possibility that photos could be seen by a back door method isn't possible anyway because the up button already has a function for audio files on the tv.
In short no you can't see the photos I'm afraid.

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Looking for Chapter Tool Beta or other app to create enhanced podcasts

Hi all. I am looking at creating enhanced podcasts. On Google I found a mysterious app that Apple has apperantly created - "Chapter Tool Beta". However, all links to this app are dead. Any idea what happened to that app?
Also, what are some alternatives? Garage Band doesn't work well, as in this project I am working on, we have to show a screen shot, then in the next "frame" same screen shot, but with a highlight box over an area. And, it's hard to line up images in GB. Any ideas? Thanks,

I think the Chapter Tool is now dead - though someone did ask about this a few weeks back: it might be worth searching for the thread to see whether anyone could help.
I would suggest you look at Podcast Maker: this will take your pre-existing mp3 files and add chapters and images to make an m4a 'enhanced podcast', and incorporate the information you give it into a feed file. It will then upload the podcast to your iDisk or other server and ping the iTunes Store for you. I've used it for three years now and found it very reliable.

Enhanced Podcasts Not Enhanced on iPad

Am I overlooking something extremely obvious or are Enhanced Podcasts no longer supported by the 3rd gen iPad (2012)? When I play an enhanced podcast in the Music app, it looks and plays just like any other podcast. I don't see options to select chapters, the artwork doesn't change when a new chapter starts and there are no clickable links.
I really hope this is a bug on the latest iPad or stupidity on my part as I think enhanced podcasts are some of the best around. I'd really hate to loose all the functionality of these wonderful shows.

Have you thought about downloading the free Apple Podcast App?

Enhanced podcasts

No where on Apple's site does it say that YOU MUST HAVE CHAPTER TOOL to post enhanced podcasts made in Garage band.
Yet it seems that other people on the web have posted this info.
http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/PodcastChapterTool#iPodChapterBug
Why doesn't Apple have all the info we need to create and upload enhanced podcasts using Garage band and iweb posting to .mac and itunes?
After many calls to apple care no one mentions this in any support area! Yet at macworld posting an enhanced podcast required no chapter tool or work in Terminal! Please post the actual way to do this! Somewhere official from Apple.

This forum is for the program iWeb, which is not involved in the creation of podcasts. You should post your problem in the forums for Garageband:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=127
In any case, in the forums you are just talking to other users like yourself. To convey your wishes to Apple, use the feedback channels.

Enhanced Podcasts with QT7 Pro for Win??

I purchased QT7 Pro thinking I might be able to create an enhanced podcast on the PC since Apple's Chapter Tool isn't available for PC and there seems to be nothing mentioning anywhere if and when it will ever be available for PC.
I created an MP4 movie with AAC audio and a photo JPEG video track... and made sure that my movie had the exact same codecs and specs as the "Make Magazine Enhanced Podcast" did, as stated in the movie info tabs. I added chapters and the two files SEEM like they play identical in Quicktime Player... but when I add "my" file I created into iTunes, it doesn't display chapters or artwork like it did in QT Player
All the specs seem identical. What's different?
Can this be done? It seems like it SHOULD work...

Thanks David.
I kept researching and reading after putting up the post.
Upgrading to OS 10.4 & DSP4 & FCP5 to get Compressor 2 is just to expensive for me at this time.
And after much thought upgrading to QT7 for h.264 just to watch videos online, (and not having broadband thats a very time consuming process), I think I'll just stay with what I have at the moment which works well.
Many Thanks for the feedback and confirmation.

Enhanced Podcasts Too Small to See

I work at a university where we're looking into using podcasts as a teaching tool.
We're considering a software that will automatically record/sync a professor's lecture (audio) and PowerPoint notes (actually anything from the computer screen) into an enhanced podcast.
The trouble is... when viewing this on my 5th gen iPod, you can't read anything from the PowerPoint slides. Almost 1/2 " from either side of the screen... and almost 1/4" inch from the top & bottom of the screen... aren't being used.
I suspect this has something to do with maintaining the aspect ratio of the original source? Is there any way around this? To utilize more of the screen? What's the maximum image size for an enhanced podcast?
Another method we've employed involves creating video podcasts of the same lectures/PowerPoint slides. You lose the ability to add chapters - but the video takes up the entire iPod screen (so you can actually read the notes!)
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated!

I agree, this needs to be addressed big time. It's a waste having to open the template, just to decide against it and have to close the whole document, then open a new doc to view the template gallery again. This is why I also suggest a way to view the template gallery from a button on the toolbar as well, rather than only when opening a new doc. I'm amazed this wasn't implemented by Apple...
If there is a way to view the template gallery and select new templates without opening a completely new doc, please let me know.

Enhanced podcast (don't see chapter and pictures in podcast app on iphone or ipad)

hi people !
i create enhanced podcast, and try that podcast on itunes app on my pc. Everything work ok, except pictures but i know that this is bug with curent version of iTunes. Then i opet same m4a enhanced podcast in quicktime app on my pc, again everything work ok, i see chapters and i see pictures. Then i put same file on my server, i see that podcast in my podcast app on my iphone and ipad and when i stream it , i don't see pic and logo for chapters. when i scan my enhanced m4a podcast file i see that my file have: general,audio, video & menu section
in first general section
Format :
M4A
Codec ID :
M4A
this not working on podcast app on iphone or ipad !
then i scan enhanced podcast file downloaded from podcast app from my iphone with working chapters and pic made with garage band on mac by someone
and i see sections: general,audio, video and text 1 and text 2 sections (my not working does not have that last 2 , my last is menu section)
Format :
MPEG-4
Format profile :
Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec ID :
M4A
look at format profile ! it says Apple audio with iTunes info !
last thing is that i download from appstore app called Downcast, and try my enhanced podcast in that app wooow, everything work again ok when i stream, i see chapters i see pic. then at the end i download
Podreel — Enhanced podcast authoring tool for Windows
and try to build test podcast with that app, when i analyze enhanced podcast made with that app i see info say that podcast is made with garageband ??? this is fake tag made by podreel because podcast is made with podreel and not garage band, file made with podreel have this
Format :
MPEG-4
Format profile :
Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec ID :
M4A
again format profile is same like one from that working.
is podreel make fake tag because podcast app in iphone and ipad play exclusively enhnaced podcas make with garage band (podreel fake tag) or somebody know where I'm wrong. why my enhanced podcast don't play pics and chapters when is on iphone or ipad podcast app. i will write again that my file work on downcast app on iphone or ipad, work on pc in itunes, work on quicktime player etc work everywhere except there where i want to work in podcast app on iphone or ipad

hehe if somebody knows something this is def you Roger about first thing with seeing pic in itunes i think that i read all possible posts on web in last 7 days and nights and this is not working on my pc with control-click (Windows) but i don't care ! i wait for apple do magic bug fixing on new itunes version. And now about main problem. iOS devices are capable displaying chapter images because this is working right now with some podcast on my phone, i give you pic example iphone 4 iOS 6.1.2
in first pic you can see streaming podcast and chapters (little white dots on bar),second picture is first song with cover of single playing, and if you look close right from the clock zzz simbol is chapter logo, if you press it you will be see pic no.3 so this def working but working when you mad your podcast on mac with garage band ! that's why i write about format ids, tags etc
http://i.imgur.com/vy33H9y.png
http://i.imgur.com/g4P5iM1.png
http://i.imgur.com/zDOIwrC.png
i test your podcast episode 36 then episode 33 and 31 ! bad news my friend no chapters and no pictures only one main pic. but when i test your podcast in downcast app in my iphone wooo i see text i see your pic i see chapters i see everything. so that mean it's working everywhere like mine except iphone and ipad app and now we come to theory of garage band things tags in m4a files. you write that you have done all this in podcast maker not garage band. This is now real mistery to me !
i analyze your file here and you have in last section menu1 and menu 2 so maybe problem is somwhere around this, not in format id because you have ok format id like one that working ok

It's impossible to create Enhanced Podcasts on Intel Macs. Please read.

After vast amounts of frustration trying to create an Enhanced Podcast on my MacBook Pro, I tracked down the source of the problem:
$ file /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/ChapterTool
/Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/ChapterTool: Mach-O executable ppc
GarageBand uses ChapterTool to add the artwork and chapter stops to the AAC file, and ChapterTool is PPC only. Command-line applications do not run under Rosetta. Simply put, there's no way to author enhanced podcasts if you're using an Intel Mac. None. Every other tool out there to do so needs ChapterTool, too.
Pathetic. If you, like me, are an Intel Mac user who'd like to create Enhanced Podcasts, provide some feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/garageband.html
15.4" MacBook Pro, 2ghz, 2gb, 100gb @7200rpm Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Simply put, there's no way to author enhanced podcasts if you're using an Intel Mac.
Sorry, but I don't buy this. Just created an Enhanced Podcast without any problems. And given that the whole podcast stuff was introduced together with the Intel Macs, we would have heard a lot of complaints here in the forum during the last 10 months. You're the first.

URL's in Enhanced podcasts not working?

I did some tests tonight, and confirmed that STP2 does NOT properly embed the URL's in enhanced podcasts. I confirmed this by producing a podcast w/ the URL's in Garageband and it works perfectly.
How do things like this slip by the testers and get shipped in final retail by Apple? I bought STP2 specifically do to podcasts, and it can't even do that right.
How do I file a bug with Apple on this?
/sad

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7.1.6 update broke enhanced podcast in safari

hi.
i'm seeing some issues about the 7.1.6 update in the boards, but none that are quite what i'm experiencing. after applying the update i can view flash movies, and files from youtube, etc.; it is only the enhanced podcasts (in this case on an rss feed) that i'm having trouble with.
i have done the usual fixes, including reinstalling via download, repair permissions, delete plist files (move first - THEN delete!), tried other browsers. i have not tried an "archive and install", as i'm hoping to find a less drastic solution.
the offending site displays fine with 7.1.5 on a very similarly configured imac g4. am i alone? any other suggestions?

It appears to be a "bug" in 7.1.6 and the browser plug-in.
The .m4a files (MPEG-4 audio) that also include a video track seem to start to load via the plug-in (a quick display of the image then a change to the QT ? icon).
I suggested changing the extension to .m4v in another post as a "temporary" fix until Apple identifies the error and sends us a fix.
I think the error is part of new security features in QuickTime. The .m4a should be an audio file (this is what the plug-in expects) and when it finds the "video" it turns off the plug-in. The same file will play just fine in QuickTime Player.

No enhanced podcast with iPad

I've searched around and found a couple of posts in the iPad discussion that seem to confirm my worst fears: you cannot view an enhanced podcast on an iPad!!!! It's a brick! This must be because the "ipod" app I guess cannot carry out the high-tech sequencing of still graphics with the audio. Or did I miss something and Steve Jobs just announced that the iPad will have no artwork created after 1500, lest anything later be construed as too flashy? Apple, please give us back enhanced podcasts-- it's a fair trade for taking the iPad leap of faith.

I do enhanced podcasts for my online students with Keynote and Garage band. I created an .m4p and it plays FINE on my iPod touch, so I can't imagine why it won't work on an iPad.
I get the Episode artwork but none of the chapters. The tracks all show up in the list view, but no images. Also, if I display the Episode artwork, I can't get the controls to appear. Bug, bug, bug.

Dropped images in enhanced podcast

I have been creating enhanced podcasts and am noticing that a handful of images will not display after I've transfered the file from iTunes to my iPod. All files are saved and imported in the same way, yet less than a dozen out of 50-60 images won't display on the iPod. It plays and displays fine in iTunes. Is anyone else experiencing this problem. And if so what is a work around?
Thanks!

I'm having the exact same issue. My enhanced podcast (this is the first one I've done) is only about three minutes in, but has a ton of images, all of which play fine in iTunes, but do not play on either my iPod nano third-generation, or my second generation iPod touch. I have a hard time believing that the processor speed on those devices isn't fast enough to keep up, given that they can do so much (especially the iPod touch) with graphics. I really was that Apple would get on this, but in their relentless pursuit to push certain things, a lot is getting left out.

Enhanced podcasts on iweb - embedded URLs misbehave

i create enhanced podcasts with chapters, embedded urls, pics. i usually export ('share') them to/with itunes and my iweb-created site. (as m4a files).
when they go to itunes, and are distributed through itunes, they behave properly, in that when a viewer clicks on an embedded URL link, the page pops open in a separate window and the podcast file stops playing.
when a visitor clicks and plays them from the website, the player opens in a browser window .. then when you click on an embedded url .... it leaves that browser window completely and goes to the page. but the podcast files simply closes ... so to go back to it .... you hit the backwards arrow, and you have to restart the podcast. stoopid. apple says it's hard wired that way, while admitting it's a dumb setup. does anyone know a way around this ? i'm not a code monkey, but i can do a little hacking if necessary. thanks ....

After checking out the history of photography, I see it uses a double text track with photo-jpeg track for the photos, this is a similar format for chapter markers on itunes movies, chapter markers are accessed via the up button on the remote, so the possibility that photos could be seen by a back door method isn't possible anyway because the up button already has a function for audio files on the tv.
In short no you can't see the photos I'm afraid.

Viewing chapter artwork in M4A enhanced podcasts

Hi, I just acquired a new iPod Nano.
I can't seem to see the chapter artwork when I listen (and watch) my enhanced audio podcasts (m4a) (Among others This Week in Media and sneaker.fm) .
I'm also a podcast producer and tried watching my podcast on the nano, but unlike my older iPod Photo it does not seem to show the album art coupled to each chapter. Do I miss some sort of setting?
I really really wanted just to see FULL SCREEN chapter artwork while watching the m4a files. Please fix this or help me!

I wanted to add my comments about how disappointing it is to not be able to view enhanced podcasts on the 3G nano. I develop them for educational use (you can embed large images for Quicktime computer based viewing and we have little need for live action video). I do hope Apple gets this fixed-or makes an official pronouncement if they intend to abandon the enhanced format. It would be a REAL pain to have to redo my extant material in the video format. There are many annoying minor bugs in the 1.1 upgrade-these are described in other posts. The price we pay as early adopters I suppose.

Enhanced Podcast Not Showing Podcast Track

I created a number of enhanced podcasts using Garageband 09. All of them display the podcast track (artwork) just fine in iTunes. Only some of them display correctly in QuickTime. I was using QT to export them as 3gp files, but some of them show audio only. The one's that show correctly list both AAC, stereo and Apple Photo JPEG in the movie inspector info. Those that don't show correctly (audio only) only have AAC stereo info in the movie inspector. They were created with identical processes via Garageband 09. Any ideas?

I had forgotten that these files were actually duplicates made in iTunes. In iTunes I had a bunch of enhanced podcast files on a particular album. I needed to use some of the files on a different album I was creating. I attempted to not alter the first album by selecting the create AAC version under the Advanced menu. I took the newly created podcasts and did a mass information change to the new album name. It was in this process that the JPEG was lost.

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